The Kilusang Bagong Lipunan (KBL), the political party of former President Ferdinand Marcos, has asked the Supreme Court to order the Commission on Elections (Comelec) to go back to manual voting and abandon the automated election system (AES).

In a petition for mandamus, the KBL said the automated elections in 2010 and 2013 that utilized the Precinct Count Optical Scan (PCOS) machines were tainted with irregularities and it is possible that fraud will again be committed if the election next year will be held using counting machines.

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